The Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has today (Thursday) flagged-off the distribution of empowerment package of 20,000 each to 2,000 people living with disability as part of social Inclusion strategy aimed at spreading good governance to all category of people.
In a statement by director general media and publicity, government house Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, said the empowerment programme was informed by the government’s desire to assist and support all citizens in the state irrespective of their physical disability, economic background or social differences.
According to the governor, it is with the ardent believe of his administration that people living with disability take a center stage of his government that needs to be accorded proper care, rehabilitation, sense of belonging and provision of other social amenities for their benefit and that of their families.
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The Governor urged the beneficiaries to remain consistent in making positive plans and aspirations to make their lives better and more prosperous as the government from its side has a lot of programmes and policies to project their lives to better living.
The beneficiaries were drawn from eight clusters that include: the blinds, Crippled, deafs and dumbs, albinos, lepers and spinal cord injury patients across the 44 local governments of Kano State.
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The Governor also assured the people living with disabilities that his government is set to establish the PWD Commission in Kano to domesticate the Disabilities Act initiated by the Federal Government.
Earlier in his address, the chairman of PWD in Kano Engr. Musa Muhammad Shaga appreciated the Governor’s good gesture for fulfilling his campaign promise on social inclusion through the support to people living with disabilities.